Each person must live their life as a model for others.
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
Time is the best killer.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air
The less you know, the more you believe.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
